Iowa
Old Press
Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Blackhawk co. Iowa
Friday, July 29, 1898
The City in Brief
-The firm of Bachman & Son, Implement dealers, has dissolved,
C.H. Bachman retiring.
-Engelking & Widdell are installing new machinery in their
creamery on East Fourth street.
-R.B. Duke and Ora Melendy have bought the French & White
bowling alley on Sycamore street.
-C.O. Woodmansee, wife and daughter leave in the morning for a
visit at Omaha, where they will take in the exposition and later
stop a short time with Mr. Woodmansee's people in Page county,
this State.
-Miss Jessie Dunkelberg goes to Dubuque tomrrow to enter St.
Joseph's academy.
-Mr. and Mrs. J. Burlingett, of Des Moines, will arrive in
Waterloo tomorrow to enjoy a few days with Mr. and Mrs. C.P.
Bratnober at "Bideawee" cottage, Sans Souel.
H.G. Middleditch has arrived home from an enjoyable pleasure and
business trip through Tennessee and Alabama. He visited
Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga and other interesting points
and saw the troops at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga park. The trip was
of special interest in these war times.
Buschjens, the man arrested for embezzlement and confined in the
county jail several days ago, was released on bail today. It is
thought the case may be settled before court sets.
Major Pomeroy, of Sioux City, who was rejected from the Iowa
Volunteers at Camp McKinley because of ill health and bad
physical condition was in Waterloo today. He doesn't look as
though he was wasting away very rapidly.
Judge Platt and C.P. Brainober floated down the river in a boat
from Cedar Falls yesterday on a fishing trip and managed to load
their craft with a catch of 22.
Will E. Hunt caught a spoon bill catfish in the river this
morning. It is the second of the species captured here this
season. It is entirely boneless except the bill, which on this
fish measured ten inches in length. The fish weighed 4 1/2 pounds
and measured three feet from tip to tip.
The lot owned in Fairview cemetery by the local G.A.R. post has
been improved and beautified, by the placing of a circular curb
about the same. The lot is 32 feet in diameter. In the ceneter of
the circle a plat for flowers has been left, and a shaft will be
erected soon. The work has been in charge of a committee from
Robert Anderson Post, composed of Mayor Groat, W.H. Brott, C.B.
Stilson and J.F. Klingaman. The committee has expended $53.
Golden Wedding
Dubuque, July 29 - Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Liddy, of Littleport,
Clayton county, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary
Wednesday. they have lived forty nine years in the woods near
that city, and that the 150 guests who were present at the
celebration might be sheltered, an immense tent was erected.
Forty Dubuquers who are related to the old couple attended the
event. Dr. Liddy, of Chicago, their son, was also present.
Iowa Patents Granted Last Week - Reported
expressly for the Courier by Geo. H. Evans, successor to
A.H. Evans & Co. Patent Solicitors, Washington, D.C.
G.O. Morse and E.D. Rich, Maquoketa, pipe cutter
A.E Schlieder, Sioux City, current motor
J.T. Smith, Norway, clothes line tightener
A.C. Wright, Britt, ankle joint
Fatal Accident near Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa, July 29 - Simon McBride, a well-to-do and
representative farmer living near Fremont, was killed in a
runaway yesterday afternoon. McBride and Harvey Eastburn were in
a buggy when the horse started to run away. Both lines broke and
Mr. Eastburn jumped out. McBride tried to get out, but in doing
so his head struck a post, inflicting fatal injuries. The
accident happened at 2 p.m. and McBride died about forty minutes
later.
Osage News: J.H. Rafferty died at
Waterloo last Wednesday after a short illness resulting from
appendicitis. Mr. Rafferty successfully promoted the Waterloo
street railway enterprise, which did more toward placing Waterloo
in the front rank of Iowa's progressive cities than any one man
in that place.
Death Angel
Many friends in Waterloo will learn with regret the misfortune
that has come to J.F. Lattner, formerly of this city, in the
death of his wife at Cedar Rapids yesterday afternoon. The
Republican says:
At 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, after months of suffering, Mrs.
J.F. Lattner died at the family home, No. 405 South Second
street, at the age of 41 years. The funeral will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, from the church of Immaculate
Conception, conducted by Rev. Father Gunn, assisted by Rev.
Father Beer, of Dyersville. The interment will be in the cemetery
at Kenwood.
Josephine Mary Endres was born in Dubuque county, eight miles
west of the city of Dubuque, on Dec. 6, 1857. She was married to
J.F. Lattner at Lattners on Sept. 16, 1879. At that time Mr.
Lattner was engaged in teaching school at Cascade and they lived
at that town for the next four years, after which they moved to
La Porte city, where for five or six years Mr. Lattner was editor
and publisher of the La Porte City Progress. They then
came to Cedar Rapids, some seven or eight yeras ago. Mr. Lattner
accepted a prosition on the Gazette, where he was for
some time. Leaving the Gazette, he went to Dubuque,
where he was employed on the Herald for one year. Mrs.
Lattner and the children, however, remained in Cedar Rapids
during that time. Mr. Lattner then returned here and conducted
the Journal for a year. For the past three years he has
been in the post office.
Mrs. Lattner, who was first of all devoted to her home and her
children, after her church, was soon known after coming to Cedar
Rapids in both church and social circles, and by her personality
and genial nature had soon drawn about her a legion of warm
personal friends. About a year ago her health began to fail, and
since last February she has been almost constantly confined to
her bed, the failure being slow but sure.
She is survived by her husband and four children, three boys and
one daughter. They are: J. Arthur Lattner, a young man of 18, who
is a member of the Fifth Iowa battery, and who will be home
tosay; P. Eugene Lattner, a lad of 17; Miss Louisa Amanda and M.
Buron Lattner. She is also survived by her aged mother, Mrs.
Josephine Endres, who has been by her daughter's bedside for
months, and one brother, O.J. Endres, of Lattners. To the
sorrowing family in this, their hour of affliction, will be
extended the sincere sympathy of a host of friends.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2013]